skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've been blown away by a candidate while they're talking about their experience, but then asking them to code something small, they utterly bomb.

You're making the opposite point you think you are. How do you know that you observed an inability to code as opposed to interview performance anxiety?

I've been coding for 25 years, but have bombed my share of very simple white-boarding exercises because I panic and my brain absolutely stops working. If it's experience-based or even take home, I generally knock it out of the park.

White-board coding works for FAANG because they have 100,000 applicants at any given time and it doesn't matter if it has an exceptionally high false negative rate. It does not work so well for shops that are struggling to find candidates.
I think you're ignoring that fact that once you remove the commerce function of a city, a lot of the factors that create a vibrant culture go away.

If it's not a place where people make money / strive / want to make something of themselves, it's either a retirement community or a vacation town: just in sustaining mode.
If anything with large towers, I wouldn't be surprised if the HVAC is routed adjacent of the elevator shafts in the center of the floor.
> The Most Powerful Neural Engine Ever

that would be my brain still - at least for now ;)
Oh, I see you want to annotate the parameter in the type position, so the annotation act as some sort of qualifier.
Bond Markets Are the New Stock Markets
Note, this is a Beta version of the software, as such it doesn't have all the functionality and has purposefully been limited.
This is mainly what got me into roasting my own coffee. It was becoming a pain to find high quality dark roasts as all of the boutique roasters turned their efforts to light roasts.
This is standard apple advertising.The best whatever in the world that is the same as some standard thing with a different name. Apple is like clothing makers that "vanity size" their clothes. If you dont know that basically means a size 20 is 30 size 21 is 31 and so on.

Neural processing unit is basically a made up term at this point so of course they can have the fastest in the world.
I appreciate that, it does help, thank you. Indeed I found a few cafes that were used to it, and quite a few that weren’t. I think you’re totally right that this trips up some people’s flow especially when they’re not used to it. I’m okay with accepting it actually is unusual for some and just instead being the person complaining that it should be usual or expected even if it isn’t always. FWIW I have tried it microwaved, and it’s fine, but never in a cafe - baristas have always steamed it until warm or hot. That also works for me.
The Dishonored games were great. At least they wrapped up the story before they got canned. Wonderful painterly art style and imaginative gameplay.
https://archive.ph/5lFCK
I'm 40 but I think I know, from personal experience, why kids stop reading.

A video game in the 90s was 10x more exciting and immersive than most books, to me.

Today it's at insane levels of over-stimulation.

A 30 second tiktok clip can give you the same type of knowledge that a 300 page book can, but it cuts to the chase, and doesn't bury the lead.

Not only life-lessons or hacks either, teenagers are producing entire short stories that follow classical formats of drama and comedy.

What we thought was insightful and revolutionary knowledge is now conveyed to a 9 year old at breakfast.
In cities where people are renting out living rooms, closets as sleeping areas I think windowless units would definitely be viable. Hong Kong has cage bunks, SF has adult dorm rooms.
Apple hates it
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/applicati...
> privacy-first strategy

That's just their way of walled gardening apple customers. Then they can extort devs and other companies dry without any middle-men.
Launching DoShare CLI v1.0
What impact is this having on the lower class? Is grid power getting cheaper or more plentiful because of this? Or is it getting more expensive for them due to economies of scale?

I'm by no means implying that you're do anything wrong btw, I'm genuinely curious how this is affecting things. In the US I've wondered what the impact would be but it's too early to tell.
I'm not using Confluence anymore, but I imagine others would find your TUI useful. Have you considered publishing it?
Filippo and I dug into this a bit more, and it is possible that VSCode auto-complete (which also adds imports for the auto-completed things) is the culprit here. Apologies if that's what happened to you. We will look into fixing that.

Now that math/rand.Read is marked deprecated, at least if it does get selected, you get a nice strikethrough rendering as well.
Well it may have effect on ergonomics. Some people claim they cannot use 60Hz monitor after trying 144hz.
In case you didn't know, simulacra and simulation is a book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation
Yup, the path usually looks something like:

Service desk job > L2 > L3 > company pays for a bunch of cloud training so they don't have to pay for another consultant > DevOps

or

CE/CS intern > tasked with implementing stuff in clouds > hired as Jr SWE, but still tasked with doing those devopsy things that the real devops team doesn't wanna do > jump a few times, each time still taking on devopsy stuff > Sr DevOps Admin
It can depend, but yeah.. when you're filling 1-2 jobs and have a stack of 500 resumes, you're going to do quick filtering based on some pretty arbitrary decisions. Worse is that the recruiting companies will often do weird things to any formatting you have done. If even 50% of the applicants are technically qualified, dumping 90% at random is still likely to get you where you need faster.

It's worth taking the time to ensure your formatting is consistent, with no/few spelling and grammatical issues.

It will also vary by market/location. If you're looking at jobs local to you, it could be very different, especially for those jobs wanting domain experience. Different business sectors also congregate around adjacent businesses... so the choices and technology in one City will vary greatly to other Cities. As will the development process itself.
wgpu (and webgpu more generally) is often presented as a very good choice for a cross platform low level graphics api. but it was designed around safety/security constraints to support the web, sometimes at the cost of performance (my understanding)

i heard somewhere this nice example: only big actors like AAA game engines would really benefit from the extra development effort it would take to use an even lower level api like vulkan/dx12 to squeeze the last 10% of performance that wgpu can't get you

so if i understand correctly, zed, just like a AAA game engine, wants to squeeze every last bit of performance from the gpu, and so wgpu is "too high level" for it? and blade is "like wgpu, but no design tradeoffs and lower level" so its a better fit? does that mean someday zed might reach for vulkan directly one day? im assuming dx12 is gonna be used on windows anyway?

i love kvark's work btw, we need more kvarks
It's not false at all and says the same thing. Again the quote: at least some of the acts alleged by South Africa appear to fall under the provisions of the Genocide Convention.

My post was made in reply to the claim that the genocide "accusation is ridiculous and lacking any form of sincere analysis"

Obviously not the case - South Africa made the exact claim and the court decided that the acts alleged fall under the provisions of the genocide convention. So the only ridiculous thing void of sincere analysis is claiming there is nothing to discuss.
Mine is 8GB M1 and it is not fine. But the actual issue for me isn't RAM as much as it is disk space, I'm pretty confident if it wasn't also the 128 GB SSD model it would handle the small memory just fine.

I'm still getting at least 16 GB on my next one though.
> I got asked to write a function that calculates all the subsets of a given set.

I very much dislike the interview questions which roughly translate to "do you know combinatorics/<insert-some-other-area-of-math>?". Even back when I was personally good at those questions (straight out of University), they were less interesting interview questions.

I'm sure there's some jobs where it's relevant, but for the vast majority of software jobs... not so much. I get why it's done - they can be small, self-contained problems, which don't require a lot of external context. And they can be easier to come up with.

> The problem wasn't the question, though. It was that the person asking me this didn't even know what "yield" was in Python.

That is a problem too. As an interviewer, I'm okay with someone using a language or lang feature I don't know, so long as they can explain it. Some interviewers are much less flexible. Hell, sometimes I'll feign ignorance over some lang feature just to see what their explanation is like, because it's a measure of signal on how well they can teach a feature to a more junior dev.
Sleeping produces less co2 than working. Therefore, if you don't feel it getting stuffy (without opening windows) at work time, then sleep time should be no issue. Besides, offices have to deal with more people than residential buildings. And air quality depends on the number of people (and what they do).
Marques' review - "Google Pixel 8A Impressions: Just Get The 8!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3szaVzQx0o
This is a great point. As companies get bigger you can find HR actually codifies the behavior as part of their efforts to reduce unconscious bias in the hiring process. So you end up with developers, who know this is a flawed system, perpetuating it because the rules require it.
Yeah. This stuff is all about putting an end to the global mass surveilance dragnets. Police and government should still be able to operate of course, with checks and balances.

They should not be able to push a button and learn everything about a person. If they want to learn about an individual's private life, they should have to get a warrant then put people to work on the guy's case. They should have to literally follow their targets, photograph them, put hardware keyloggers into their keyboards. That sort of hardship imposes natural limits on the scale of their operations: there are only so many police officers you can assign. With computerized dragnet surveillance, the scale of their operations is essentially limitless.

These encrypted communications services aren't generally in the business of going to jail in their customer's place. They gotta comply with the government laws. When a court orders them to do something, they either obey or they are held in contempt of court if not worse. It can't be helped. It's still helping reduce global surveillance by forcing them to target their attacks.
ncdu

dive https://github.com/wagoodman/dive
What're incentives for state to care about traffic? In my city they'd close road, do nothing for a month, then quickly patch in a few days and open road. They don't care about traffic jams and badly patched road requires repair every few years, which is a good thing for repair company, they always got a lot of work.

Theoretically I understand that bad traffic results in bad economy and less taxes, but in reality those things are so far away from each other to not make any influence.
I don't know why so many people look down on renting.

There are a lot of hidden costs and time sinks (time is also money) in owning a home that most people vastly overlook when they are trying to compare the true and final cost.

Renting can easily make more sense in a lot of cases at least in my experience. I can seem to find renting to be significantly cheaper and take the money I save and invest in real investments that return more than a typical house normally would.
Closed windows won't necessarily save you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Garry_Hoy

> While giving a tour of the Toronto-Dominion Centre to a group of articling students, he attempted to demonstrate the strength of the structure's window glass by slamming himself into a window. He had apparently performed this stunt many times in the past, having previously bounced harmlessly off the glass. After one attempt which saw the glass hold up, Hoy tried once more. In this instance, the force of Hoy slamming into the window removed the window from its frame, causing the entire intact window and Hoy to fall from the building.
Training is not billable. Managers decided they only like billable hours. Kind of like when you decide that you only like winning the race and you hate training.
Yes at the end its just some data representing user's trained model. Is there a contractual agreement with users that apple will never ever transfer a single byte of those, otherwise huge penalties will happen? If not, its pinky PR promise that sounds nice.
That's funny you say that, because this is precisely the time, I started buying Macs (I got a Pismo PowerBook G3 gifted and then bought an iBook G4). And my experience was that for sure, if you put as much money into a PC than in a Mac you would get MUCH better performance.

What made it worth it at the time (I felt) was the software. Today I'm really don't think so, software has improved overall in the industry and there is not a lot of things "Mac specific" that makes it a clear-cut choice.

As for the performance I can't believe all the Apple silicon hype. Sure, it gets good battery life given you use strictly Apple software (or software optimized for it heavily) but in mixed workload situation it's not that impressive.

Using the M2 MacBook Pro of a friend I figured I could get maybe 4-5 hours out of its best case scenario which is better than the 2-3 hours you would get from a PC laptop but also not that great considering the price difference.

And when it comes to performance it is extremely unequal and very lackluster for many things. Like there is more lag launching Activity Monitor on a 2K++ MacBook Pro than launching task manager on a 500 PC. This is a small somewhat stupid example but it does tell the overall story.

They talk a big game but in reality, their stuff isn't that performant in the real world.

And they still market games when one of their 2K laptops plays Dota 2 (a very old, relatively ressource efficient game) worse than a cheapo PC.
be the language model you want to see in the world
> how do I keep the project alive?

besides the current costs, what other metrics factor in? (i.e. how many hours have you spent working on this project)

>good DAU count

what is that count

>This project is also available to buy

if you were to put a price on your project, what would be the minimum amount you would sell for?
The emperor really has no clothes when it comes to food fads.

And pricing is a completely orthogonal and obtuse concept too. Cold brew is putatively low effort and low cost. Just let coffee grounds soak in water overnight and you have cold brew. But it's often charged more than regular coffee or espresso-based drinks, which a) use more expensive equipment b) need more skilled operation c) more material [milk etc]
`ncdu` is the single best tool I've ever found for tracking down high-disk-usage directories deep in the filesystem. Run it with the `-x` flag to prevent it from crossing mounts.
As someone with no formal degree, but approaching 3 decades of experience, this last (recent) job search was rather brutal. Not enough feedback to know if/what was going on. Could be lack of formal education, could be my age (legal or not).
I'm curious on this. Why wouldn't statistical compression go smaller? Assuming you restrict the statistics in question to be tailored to the metadata that is being compressed, it feels like it should be comparable? Yes, you may need/want to store a precomputed dictionary at the receiving end so that you aren't sending that every time, but that is really no different from having custom code that you need at receiving end. Right?
>"built like a videogame"

A term coined Casey Muratori for this is immediate-mode GUIs or else IMGUI programming[1]. Hence the name for the very popular Dear ImGui project. GPUI used for Zed is mentioned as hybrid immediate and retained mode UI framework[2].

[1]: https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0001 (fist post on his blog!)
[2]: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/tree/main/crates/gpui
As a complete layman, when I tried tossing cold brew into the microwave it ended up tasting pretty gross. Like, jarringly so.

I won't pretend to know the science behind it, or perhaps I warmed it differently than what the parent poster does, but I definitely sympathize with the barista's hesitation in his story.
Opening windows on high floors is great -- you don't need screens cause most urban insects stay much closer to ground level. (Although admittedly I haven't opened any windows higher than 20)
Part of this is because a lot of popular non-fiction (i.e. non-academic) comes from long form journalism. Personally, I like that style but understand that some people don't. The focus on that style is not pure information --- the authors aren't writing a textbook or a self-help book --- the authors are telling a story. I could read the wiki page on the Wright Bros, but I read David McCullough's "The Wright Brothers" because the writing is graceful and elegant and the storytelling is vivid and captivating.

The worst offenders, in my opinion, are the self-help/business books that aspire to long form journalism but are probably better off left as a bullet list on a blogpost. These ones are also infected by the idea that everyone of their bullet points needs a vague connection to some elaborate neuroscientific explanation and a "case study" that is usually some oversimplification. Cal Newport is painfully guilty of this, for an example; but it's everywhere in the self-help genre and especially in "airport" books. (I actually think Newport is a better blogger and occasional NewYorker writer than a book writer. His "insights" aren't that grand.)

Fiction, well, I think a long work of fiction is fine as long as the story can handle it. My tastes tend toward florid, "purple", and quite dense prose and descriptions. I like when an author "paints a scene". On the other hand, I find the recent trend of extremely "to the point", stripped down "minimalist" writing that is very common in a lot of contemporary literature (Rooney, for example) and fantasy writing (Sanderson, for example) to be downright boring and comes off as half-baked. There are probably too many 500+pg books because of publishers though. Fantasy has its own obsession with "epics". 200-250pgs is actually a great goldilocks zone that doesn't get published so often nowadays, but should make a comeback. The big publishers hate them though.
Energy density on chemical batteries is orders of magnitude higher than e.g. gravity batteries. Also you don't need to rewire a mountain.
At least here in Europe, surface type and quality is available for the majority of trails in OpenStreetMap
> like asking for upgradeable RAM on your GPU

Can I please have upgradeable RAM on GPU? Pwetty pwease?
Vector Databases Compared
BSA is one of those organizations that I didn’t have any patience for in my youth - like my church, they struggled with the basic concept of equality. They claimed to care, but they just couldn’t quite bring themselves to treat non-males and queers equally. “The Boy Scouts are not for you” was the message, delivered as kindly as possible, and it’s one I received loud and clear as early as middle school.

It’s nice to think that maybe nowadays, kids can earn their eagle badge without having to feel like they’re buying into a hypocritically ‘morally straight’ organization. Or at least, they won’t have the same hesitation about it that I did 30 years ago.

(I’ve even heard they’ve officially cut back on all that weird Native American LARPing in Order of the Arrow)
I think maybe spread out across all owners it might be palatable. You have to figure, if your heating/AC conks out, you're into that for 20k. So that's a pretty decent number when/if you're talking about multiple flats on one floor, right?
Still baffled by the idea of make a code editor not only single OS but targeting mac.
qbasic.exe :D hah. never knew. but that takes me right back haha thx
Do you have a smart TV or can you fit a streaming device or mini PC into your setup? If so, Steam Remote Play might fit the bill: https://store.steampowered.com/remoteplay

Steam used to sell a device called Steam Link for this very purpose, but now they just release apps for common platforms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_Link
Indeed. My love for reading went Gone With The Wind.
+1 The idea that it's on device, hence it's privacy-preserving is Apple's marketing machine speaking and that doesn't fly anymore. They have to do better to convince any security and privacy expert worth their salt that their claims and guarantees can be independently verified on behalf of iOS users.

Google did some of that on Android, which means open-sourcing their on-device TEE implementation, publishing a paper about it etc.
I am generally wary of anything that proposes to monetize the process of doing my core work.

I recognize that that attitude makes marketing and selling a product to developers difficult, though. If they changed from a CLA to a DCO I'd feel less uneasy about it, but but is that something their investors and business can permit?
First they should teach Australian baristas what iced coffee is.
OpenBSD had a similar problem with people calling arc4random and getting RC4 randomness, but they just changed it to use ChaCha20 anyway and backronymed it to "a replacement call for random".

https://man.openbsd.org/arc4random.3
I'm not convinced requirements 3 and 4 are actually needed.

3) make internal state not useful to the attacker.

4) assuming the ciphertexts won't leak seems silly. Might as well hand them out.

Which leads to what they call "trial decryption" to be a better solution. If you are that worried about the scalability of your whistleblower protocol at that level, we are trying to solve the wrong problem.
These are... not books.
you don't have to mentally picture the scenes/people/actions

I sort of see what you're saying, even if I don't agree with it. I think the really neat thing about these, are that they present _classic stories_ in a way that is more appealing, and more easily digestible, to kids who might never have considered them otherwise.

I remember when I was in middle school, my English teacher had a box in the corner of comic book adaptations of about a dozen "classic" stories. Several were stories by Poe, and similar 1800s-era classics. (Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, etc.) I devoured them (despite loving reading "regular" books too). I've forgotten most of the plots, but remember having enjoyed reading them. Some of them, I've never read the originals, but for others I had already read (or subsequently read) the more-detailed originals. (Anything Sherlock Holmes, at the time, was something I enjoyed.)

Reading these stories as a manga makes you lose out on a lot of details, but probably makes it a lot easier to digest some things. Pride and Prejudice, for example, has pages of details of peoples' social lives, and the complex interactions of several younger and older women, along with descriptions of gardens and houses, and I know that I definitely had trouble keeping track of who all the ancillary characters were. Having visual representations of these characters might make it easier to track that. You lose out on the richness of Austen's prose, but you keep the core character developments, relationships, and emotional interactions that form the basis of the stories.